Hancock v. Potter’s Empirical Analysis
531 F.3d 474 · 2008
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently July 2022
6 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 794 · 42 U.S.C. § 12111 (§ 101 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 5 U.S.C. § 8101 (Attendant Allowance Adjustment Act)
Relies on St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks · Shanahan v. City of Chicago · Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Our Lady of the Resurrection Medical Center · Ezell v. Potter · Kampmier v. Emeritus Corp.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'injured and inconvenienced,’ [or] even 'treated somewhat unkindly, ... there is a significant gap between such conduct, which [appears to have arose from a] fundamentally personal [employee disagreement], and discrimination.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.